And Millions Will Die

...And Millions Will Die! is a 1973 Australian television film directed by Leslie H. Martinson. It was shot in Hong Kong.

Premise

Nazi war criminal Franz Kessler, a wealthy germ warfare expert living in Hong Kong, plants a gas-filled time bomb under the city sewers.

Cast

Richard Basehart as Dr. Douglas Pruitt
Susan Strasberg as Heather Kessler
Peter Sumner as Dixie Hart
Joseph Furst as Franz Kessler
Alwyn Kurts as Dr. Mitchell
Shariff Medan as Postman
Leslie Nielsen as Jack Gallagher
Rowena Wallace as Maggi Christopher
Willie Fennell as Sid Broomberg
Les Foxcroft as Henshaw

Production

The film was a feature-length pilot for a proposed television series called "E-Force", about a crack environmental detective unit trying to track down those responsible for a poison gas attack. The villain Kessler was played by Viennese-born actor Joseph Furst, who was a regular on Australian TV and films. Make-up artist Pat Hutchence is the mother of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.